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Definition of a wet nurse in English English dictionary
- wet nurse
- Someone who treats someone else with excessive care
- wet nurse
- A woman hired to suckle another woman's child
- wet nurse
- To act as a wet nurse (in either sense.)
- a nurse
- {n} fosterer
- a nurse
- {n} fosternurse
- a nurse
- {n} fosterdam
- A nurse
- nourish
- A nurse
- nourice
- wet nurse
- Dry nurse
- wet nurse
- A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman
- wet nurse
- a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
- wet nurse
- Cf
- wet nurse
- In former times, a wet nurse was a woman who was paid to breast-feed another woman's baby. a woman paid to give her breast milk to another woman's baby
- wet nurse
- nurse hired to breast-feed a baby; breast-feed
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a wet nurse
Turkish pronunciation
ı wet nırsPronunciation
/ə ˈwet ˈnərs/ /ə ˈwɛt ˈnɜrs/
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